Remnants vs. Fitzwilliam College

Pedants be damned:
today Remnants officially entered its
second millenium.
And,
appropriately given Geoff's records apparently survived the
Y2K problem unscathed,
the club also found itself with a web-site
after two decades doing just fine without one.

Convening at our Fitzwilliam College home
with not a cloud in the sky,
we picked up right where we left off last year,
with Andy Reid smacking a quick-fire 51 (40 of which came in boundaries).
The only problem was that nobody gave him much
support,
with only Dave Williams (10) and Daniel Mortlock (12 on Remnants debut)
getting into double figures
as we limped to 103/7 from our 20 (six-ball) overs.

In previous early-season games this sort of total has proved
defensible, but Fitzwilliam College raced to 50/0 off just 6 overs,
leaving themselves with the trivial task of scoring 54 runs from 84
balls with all 10 wickets in hand.
It was, in the words of Hicks from Aliens ``game over, man'' . . .
except that it wasn't, and we staged one of the most remarkable
comebacks in the club's history.
The architects were Paul Jordan (3/3), Mark Burrows (1/12) and
Tony Malik (2/10)
who combined to take 6/20 over the next 9 overs.
By now Fitz needed 34 from 30 balls and,
with only the tail-enders left,
we completed a pretty comfortable victory as Daniel Mortlock (1/10,
having surprisingly been trusted to bowl out the last over in his first game)
held his nerve in the encroaching darkness.